Information Madness

Hindi Domains Will Start From June 2010

Hiren Pathak

Last month, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICAAN), a non-profit body responsible for assigning Web addresses to users, approved the proposal to use non-Latin scripts, which is expected to transform the Internet landscape.

Domain names are entered in the address bar of the browser to access a Web-site. The domain name provides a unique identity and on clicking on a given domain name, the Web page of the particular site opens up.

Currently, Internet addresses are limited to Latin characters from ‘A' to ‘Z'. But India has done a lot of preparatory work and are now ready to have domain names in Hindi.

India will be ready to have internationalised domain names (IDN) on the internet in Hindi by June next year. So be ready to type in the hindi domain names in your address bars.. हिन्दी.कॉम or भारत.कॉम

Written By: Hiren Pathak. You can contact him at informationmadness AT gmail DOT COM
Our valuable member Hiren Pathak has been with us since Tuesday, 12 December 2006.

Show Other Articles Of This Author

Comments (3)

- 0
- 0
ryan
2011-01-17 23:53:05
any idea from where we can register this domain names in hindi?

Reply

- 0
- 0
Steve Clarke
2010-01-21 22:23:01
Hindi, Marathi, and other Indian scripts, for domain names have been available since 2001, in the .com/net/tv extentions, and will soon be aliased into their native language script equivalents...however, they have only been publicized recently, as being available.

Very soon they will be available, in cctld (country code) extentions as well.
For more info, check out: http://HindiDomainNames.com

Reply

- 0
- 0
European Domain Centre
2009-12-01 18:19:03
It´s a great step by ICANN to finally be able to introduce this possibility. Russia has just launched a Cyrillic version of .RU (for trademark holders only at the moment). Ukraine, Egypt and Tunesia are other countries which will profit this opportunity in 2010.

Reply